Sources for Further Research
Webcast: "Exploring the Options: New Ideas for Increasing Health Coverage" (1/8/2003)
This event from the Economic and Social Research Institute's Covering America Initiative (funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) examines incremental and comprehensive options for providing affordable health insurance to the millions of Americans who lack coverage.
CMS National Health Accounts: National Health Expenditures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services provide these measure of spending for health care in the U.S. by type of service delivered (hospital care, physician services, nursing home care, etc.) and source of funding for those services (private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, out-of-pocket spending, etc.) annually.
StateHealthFacts.org - Health Coverage and the Uninsured
This category includes the health insurance status of the state’s population (those with various types of health coverage or who are uninsured), and demographic information (such as income, race/ethnicity, age, gender) for those who are uninsured, have employer-based insurance or Medicaid.
"2002 Year in Review with CQ on kaisernetwork.org"
The 107th Congress began with high hopes for health care legislation. Members of both parties pledged to pass a patients' bill of rights, add prescription drug coverage to Medicare and take action to help employers cope with the high cost of offering health insurance to their employees. With Mary Agnes Carey from Congressional Quarterly.
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